Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

I read my books aloud before they were published.

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.